tanks used on christmas battle of the bulge

New Year’s Day wasn’t much more peaceful but it showed turkey. There was little peace for soldiers on the Western Front this Christmas Day. Members of an anti-tank unit with the 26th Regiment move their gun during the battle at Dom Butgenbach.

It was his first letter to his former employer since the Battle of the Bulge began on December 16th. As the Battle of the Bulge continued to rage, Schwartz took time to write a letter home to the Press-Herald in his native Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Schwartz and his comrades in the anti-tank company of the 26th Regiment were crucial to the regiment’s defense of a Belgian manor known as Dom Bütgenbach, halfway between the towns of Büllingen and Bütenbach. Schwartz’s unit was rushed into the Battle of the Bulge on December 17, 1944, one day after a massive German assault tore into American forces in the Ardennes Forest on the border of Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany. Schwartz, an anti-tank gunner in the 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Army Division, played an integral role in the Battle of Dom Bütgenbach. In this letter, published in the West Schuylkill Press-Herald on Febru– a full month after it was written – Irvin Schwartz reflected on a holiday season spent amid the largest and deadliest battle in American history. The letters were all published in the West Schuylkill Press-Herald between 19. This is part of our “Letters from War” series documenting the World War II letters of Irvin Schwartz of Pine Grove, PA.

Tanks used on christmas battle of the bulge